Dinner & A Book - The Last Station

Join me and my guest Alice Martin was we prepare Russian borsht, beef stroganoff, a stewed fruit compote and sip vodka while discussing Jay Parini's The Last Station, a novel of Leo Tolstoy's final year on Dinner and a Book.

In 1910 Russian Count Leo Tolstoy, the most famous writer in the world, is caught in the struggle between his devoted wife, Sofya, and an equally devoted acolyte, Vladimir Chertkov over Tolstoy's legacy. Sofya fears that she and the children will lose all to the Tolstoyan movement led by Chertkov. Let's find out more about this movement and the tumultuous life of Leo and Sofya Tolstoy while preparing an aristocratic dinner and discussing Jay Parini's The Last Station.